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...individualized and fluid--some students take college-prep English but core-level math. I sat in on the Algebra II class one day, but it wasn't so much a traditional class as a study session guided by the teacher, Darren Ripley. Kids worked from different parts of the textbook. (One 11-year-old was already halfway through; most Americans who take Algebra II do so at 15 or 16.) Occasionally Ripley would show a small group how to solve a problem on the whiteboard, but there was no lecture...
...after 10 years of ballet, I put away my tattered pointe shoes, opened a world history textbook, and never looked back. Distracted with tests, clubs, and friends, I never attended a single dance class or performance during my high school years. Even with a deeply ingrained interest in dance, I completely lost touch with the art form...
These phrases could have been copied straight out of a Western textbook on African development. That's a mark of how much changed in recent months as the Chinese grew increasingly frustrated by Sudan's stubborn refusal to cooperate with the U.N. At a closed conference in Beijing in late July, one Chinese adviser on Africa said pointedly: "The Sudanese government should be more cooperative with the international community and make more efforts to find a solution to the Darfur crisis...
CONTEXT The Israeli government, in an effort to reconcile with its large Arab population, will allow the taboo term to appear in a new third-grade textbook created specially for separate all-Arab schools within Israel...
...Hence the phenomenon of Fuyuko Matsui. Though her technique could have been lifted straight from a nihonga textbook-as the holder of a Ph.D. in Japanese painting from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, it is a skill she has mastered completely-she breaks all the rules of subject matter in Gothic works like Pureness or 2005's Nyctalopia, which features another of her ghostly women, caught in the indecorous task of garroting a live chicken. But what truly sets Matsui apart is her frank acknowledgement of the dark personal motivations that drive her brush, often springing from...